ABSTRACT
There is a strong consensus that China faces a serious ecological crisis, and that China's crisis influences the global environment of food production and sustainable utilization of natural resources. Domestically, China's economic reforms, which have progressed since 1978, have been accompanied by an increased awareness of the ecological factors and by policies to solve imbalances in agricultural production and the depletion of the ecological environment. Internationally, the Brundtland Report of 1987 (WCED, 1987), as well as the papers from the Rio Summit in 1992, indicated China's importance for global development, being, as it is, the largest nation in the world, and having one of the world's highest· growth rate economies. This means that China's environment cannot be seen as a domestic or isolated Issue.
